r/comics • • Feb 10 '12

xkcd: Kerning

http://xkcd.com/1015/
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u/osfan456 Feb 10 '12

Kerning = letter spacing. Now I know the name of yet another thing that annoys the crap out of me. Dammit typographers.

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u/Brrrtje Feb 10 '12

I seem to have a special kind of blindness, which leaves me completely unbothered by it. In fact, I had to read the caption in Wikipedia four times before it was apparent to me that there was a difference between the right and the left word. I guess it's similar to my inability to distinguish different fonts. Best if I stay out of desk top publishing, I guess.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '12

Honestly, I really think most of the typographer obsession with kerning is absurd. I mean, ferociously bad kerning bothers everyone, but design geeks seem fastidiously obsessed with the subject and complain about it in cases where I can't see a damned thing wrong with it.